chant

chant is a 5-letter English word with 12 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To utter with a melodious voice; to sing. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 12 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To utter with a melodious voice; to sing.
2. transitive verb. To celebrate in song.
3. transitive verb. To sing or recite after the manner of a chant, or to a tune called a chant.
4. intransitive verb. To make melody with the voice; to sing.
5. intransitive verb. To sing, as in reciting a chant.
6. transitive verb. Song; melody.
7. transitive verb. A short and simple melody, divided into two parts by double bars, to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited. It is the most ancient form of choral music.
8. transitive verb. A psalm, etc., arranged for chanting.
9. transitive verb. Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone.
10. noun. a repetitive song in which as many syllables as necessary are assigned to a single tone
11. verb. recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm

    "The rabbi chanted a prayer"

    Synonyms: cantillate, intonate, intone

12. verb. utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically

    "The students chanted the same slogan over and over again"

    Synonyms: intone, tone

Synonyms

cantillate, intonate, intone, tone

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in chant:

natch

Common word forms

chants, chanted, chanter, chanting, chantable, chantment

Words from these letters

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